Clinical Factor 2016

The cooperative revolution reaches clinical psychology and psychotherapy: An example from Germany

“…A collaborative approach offers a number of important advantages: With the aggregated basic data, research with a large number of cases can be carried out in a short time. If necessary, comparatively rare disorders or their variants (e.g., Skin Picking Disorder, Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder, Sexual Dysfunctions; Balon, 2017 ; Sierra & David, 2011 ; Velten et al, 2021 ) even those not yet explicitly defined in classification systems (e.g. Facebook Addiction Disorder; Brailovskaia et al, 2018 , 2019 ) can be investigated.…”

The Age of Transition

“…Not surprisingly, many years later, as an editor, I was always looking for papers that were characterized by the "clinical factor": the degree and extent to which a journal article provides information to the clinician that may improve his/her practice [1]. For many years, in this journal Richard Balon has been trying to extract, from the immense psychiatric literature, the articles that had a "clinical factor" [2], with increasing difficulties, to the point that a couple of years ago we decided to stop. The young psychiatrist pictured at the beginning would have trouble finding papers that could answer questions and provide new insights.…”

Overcoming the Crisis of Clinical Research

“…For the past several years Richard Balon, with increasing difficulties, has been selecting articles published in psychiatric journals that may entail the clinical factor [14] .…”